Bray, Mason Andrew Clark

<p>An analysis to determine physical and spatial patterns of the surface latent heat flux (LHF) and near surface (5m) salinity (NSS) beneath tropical cyclones (TCs) in the North Atlantic and eastern North Pacific basins during the first 24 hours of rapid intensification (RI) was conducted using empirical orthogonal function (EOF) analysis. To determine if these patterns were unique to RI, TC RI cases were compared to three non-RI intensification thresholds, 10 kt, 15 kt and 20 kt, for both LHF a...

Rocha, Sara Rodrigues Passos

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The detailed study of an expanded Paleogene section with abundant, moderate to well preserved calcareous nannofossils from South Atlantic DSDP Site 516 has resulted in a precise correlation of most traditional and nontraditional calcareous nannofossil datums with the magnetostratigraphy. Comparison of results from Site 516 with those of previous studies for other areas enables a critical evaluation of the accuracy, synchroneity or diachroneity of the species events over geographically long dista...

The development and implementation of a new, primitive equation ocean circulation model is described. The model employs finite-difference discretization in the horizontal directions and a linear, Galerkin finite-element discretization in the vertical direction. A novel coordinate transformation is employed to retain fourth-order accuracy in the vertical. / The main emphasis of this work is an extensive discussion of the decisions concerning physical, numerical, and computational issues, includin...

Axially-symmetric, linear modes of global, primitive equation, ocean-atmosphere models are examined to see if they contain decadal ($\sim$10-30 years) oscillation time scale modes. / A two-layer model of the global ocean and a two-level model of the global atmosphere are formulated. Both models are linearized about axially-symmetric basic states containing mean meridional circulations in the ocean and the atmosphere. The linearized perturbation system is solved as an eigenvalue problem. Uncouple...

The main objective of the thesis is to carry out a rigorous hydrodynamic analysis of ocean current turbines and determine power for a range of flow and geometric parameters. For the purpose, a computational tool based on the vortex lattice method (VLM) is developed. Velocity of the flow on the turbine blades, in relation to the freestream velocity, is determined through induction factors. The geometry of trailing vortices is taken to be helicoidal. The VLM code is validated by comparing its resu...

The purpose of this thesis is to develop a renewable ocean energy material selection methodology for use in FAU's Ocean Energy Projects. A detailed and comprehensive literature review has been performed concerning all relevant material publications and forms the basis of the developed method. A database of candidate alloys has been organized and is used to perform case study material selections to validate the developed fuzzy logic approach. The ultimate goal of this thesis is to aid in the sele...

Viglundsson, Viglundur Thor

Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Ocean Engineering, 1994. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 112-113). / by Viglundur Thor viglundsson. / M.S.

Wargula, Anna (Anna Elizabeth)

Thesis: Ph. D. in Mechanical and Oceanographic Engineering, Joint Program in Oceanography/Applied Ocean Science and Engineering (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering; and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), 2017. / Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. / Includes bibliographical references (pages 93-104). / The effects of waves, wind, and bathymetry on tidal and subtidal hydrodynamics at unstratified, shallow New River Inlet, NC, are evaluated using ...

Heberley, Brian Douglas

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 2013. / This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections. / Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 439-441). / The outboard bearings that support shafts in naval ships and submarines present unique challenges to designers, shipbuilders, and operators. Suc...

Jernberg, Leaza Kolkenbeck-Ruh

One of the key challenges facing the international community in the 21st Century is the shift of the global balance of power from West to East. The rise of the “Emerging Powers” of China and India, as well as the increasing importance of energy security globally, have converged to make the security of the sea lane of communication across the Indian Ocean crucial to the maintenance of international peace and security. South Africa as a littoral state to the Indian Ocean, sitting on a key trade ro...

Maas, Natasha

Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2013. / Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. / Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-155). / BP needed almost 3 months to cap the Deepwater Horizon spill; improved response techniques are needed for the future. This work presents the design and deployment plan for a new type of containment system that captures the vast majority of hydrocarbons exiting the wellhead. The structure is ...

Wu, Guangyu, 1972-

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Ocean Engineering, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-258). / Despite its coarse approximation of physics, the phase-averaged wave spectrum model has been the only type of tool available for ocean wave prediction in the past 60 years. With the rapid advances in sensing technology, phase-resolved nonlinear wave modeling, and high performance computing capability in recent years, the time has come to start developing...

Johnson, Winifred M., Ph. D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Thesis: Ph. D., Joint Program in Oceanography/Applied Ocean Science and Engineering (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences; and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), 2017. / Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. / Includes bibliographical references. / Key players in the marine carbon cycle are the ocean-dwelling microbes that fix, remineralize, and transform organic matter. Many of the small organic molecules in the marine carbon po...

Gieleghem, Ryan Thomas

Thesis (S.M.)--Joint Program in Applied Ocean Science and Engineering (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering; and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), 2012. / Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 99-100). / Signal detection and synchronization in the time varying ocean environment is a difficult endeavor. The current common methods include using a linear frequency modulated chirped pulse or maximal length sequence ...

Major, Laura M. (Laura Mary), 1980-

Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 107-110). / Technical capabilities for improved communication, surveillance, and navigation (CNS) over the oceans are currently available. However, all aircraft operators will not equip simultaneously because of the high costs required. Consequently, as these CNS systems are integrated into oceanic air transportation architecture, the controller will have t...

Farmer, Jesse Robert

Earth’s climate is intricately linked to the carbon cycle through the radiative effect of atmospheric carbon dioxide. The ocean plays a central role in this climate-carbon system; as oceans store ∼50 times more carbon than the atmosphere, even small changes in ocean chemistry could greatly affect global climate. Understanding how the oceanic carbon reservoir has evolved across changing climates is thus critical for both constraining mechanisms of climate change and predicting impacts from anthro...

Hartman, Alison Elizabeth

Ocean circulation plays an integral part in a multitude of Earth's processes including the transfer of heat and nutrients across the globe. Additionally, its role in initiating and/or responding to global climate change is thought to be significant though poorly constrained. One tool used to further understand the influence of changes in ocean circulation during climate transitions is paleocirculation records developed from deep sea cores. These records paint a picture of how ocean circulation c...

Nakamura, Jennifer Anne

This study explores seasonal patterns and structures of moisture transport pathways from the North Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico that lead to extreme large-scale precipitation and floods over land. Storm tracks, such as the tropical cyclone tracks in the Northern Atlantic Ocean, are an example of moisture transport pathways. In the first part, North Atlantic cyclone tracks are clustered by the moments to identify common traits in genesis locations, track shapes, intensities, life spans...

Flood, Roger Donald

Thesis. 1978. Ph.D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Earth and Planetary Science. / Microfiche copy available in Archives and Science. / Vita. / Bibliography: p. 333-347. / Ph.D.

Silverthorne, Katherine E

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Joint Program in Physical Oceanography (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences; and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), 2010. / Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 127-133). / Observational and modeling techniques are employed to investigate the thermal and inertial upper ocean response to wind and buoyancy forcing in the North Atlantic Ocean. First, the seasonal kinetic energy...

Miller, Thomas Edward, S.M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Thesis: S.M., Joint Program in Applied Ocean Science and Engineering (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering; and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), 2015. / Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. / Includes bibliographical references (page 77). / Due to the costs involved and time required to perform experiments at sea, it is important to provide accurate simulations of the ocean environment. Using the ray tracing code, BELLHOP, the Mission Oriented Op...

Zimmerman, Neil L

Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, 2012. / Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 77-81). / Tropical cyclones are known to cause phytoplankton blooms in regions of the ocean that would otherwise support very little life; it is also known that these storms entrain carbon-rich deep water, which can cause locally-significant air-sea fluxes. However, the relative magnitude of these two pr...

Daly, Pter M. (Peter Michael)

Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1997. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 81-84). / by Peter M. Daly. / M.S.

Solovev, Mikhail A

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Joint Program in Physical Oceanography (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences; and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), 1999. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 248-253). / Climate simulation with numerical oceanic models requires a proper parameterization scheme in order to represent the effects of unresolved mesoscale eddies. Even though a munber of schemes have been proposed and some have led to improvements in...

Arbic, Brian K

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Joint Program in Physical Oceanography (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), 2000. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 284-290). / by Brian Kenneth Arbic. / Ph.D.

Cornuelle, Bruce Douglas

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 1983. / Microfiche copy available in Archives and Science / Bibliography: leaves 355-359. / by Bruce Douglas Cornuelle. / Ph.D.

Renard, Bertrand, 1977-

Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Ocean Engineering, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 66-68). / by Bertrand Renard. / S.M.

Magnell, Bruce Arthur

Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Geology and Geophysics, 1968. / Bibliography: leaves 66-67. / M.S.

Magde, Laura Suzan

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, 1997. / Vita. / Includes bibliographical references. / by Laura Suzan Magde. / Ph.D.

Cockrell, Kevin L

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Joint Program in Oceanography/Applied Ocean Science and Engineering (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering; and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), February 2011. / Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-170). / Much of the recent research in ocean acoustics has focused on developing methods to exploit the effects that the sea surface and seafloor have on acoustic propagation. Many of those meth...

Suh, Il Ho

Thesis (Nav. E. and S.M. in Mechanical Engineering)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 2007. / This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 97-99). / The understanding of large and rare waves in the ocean is becoming more important as these rare events are turning into more common observances. In order to design ...

Wortham, Cimarron James Lemuel, IV

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Joint Program in Physical Oceanography (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences; and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), February 2013. / "February 2013." Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-184). / Efforts to monitor the ocean for signs of climate change are hampered by ever-present noise, in the form of stochastic ocean variability, and detailed knowledge of the chara...

Roman, Christopher N

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Joint Program in Applied Ocean Science and Engineering (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Ocean Engineering; and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), 2005. / Bibliography: p. 119-129. / Obtaining accurate and repeatable navigation for robotic vehicles in the deep ocean is difficult and consequently a limiting factor when constructing vehicle-based bathymetric maps. This thesis presents a methodology to produce self-consistent maps and simultaneously improve v...

Primeau, François W. (François William), 1966-

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Joint Program in Physical Oceanography (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences; and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), 1998. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 156-158). / by François W. Primeau. / Ph.D.

Haidvogel, Dale B

Thesis. 1976. Ph.D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Meteorology. / Microfiche copy available in Archives and Science. / Vita. / Bibliography: leaves 241-244. / by Dale B. Haidvogel. / Ph.D.

Needell, Gerald Jack

Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Meteorology, 1979. / Microfiche copy available in Archives and Science. / Bibliography : leaves 37-39. / by Gerald J. Needell. / M.S.

Cordery, Matthew Jean

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, 1991. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 183-190). / by Matthew Jean Cordery. / Ph.D.

Wolfe, Cecily Jo

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, 1994. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 119-124). / by Cecily Jo Wolfe. / Ph.D.

Israelsson, Peter H. (Peter Hampus), 1973-

Thesis (S.M. in Technology and Policy)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Engineering Systems Division, Technology and Policy Program, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-159). / This thesis evaluates the expected impact of several promising schemes for ocean carbon sequestration by direct injection of CO2, and serves as an update to the assessment by Auerbach et al. (1997) and Caulfield et al. (1997) of water quality impacts and the induced mortality to zooplankton. The pre...

Bottoms, Albert Maitland

Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Meteorology, 1962. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 100-102). / by Albert Maitland Bottoms. / M.S.

Richardson, Mary Josephine

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 1980. / Microfiche copy available in Archives and Science. / Vita. / Bibliography : leaves 227-236. / by Mary Josephine Richardson. / Ph.D.

Makris, Nicholas Constantine

Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Physics, 1983. / MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND SCIENCE. / Includes bibliographical references. / by Nicholas Constantine Makris. / B.S.

Firing, Eric

Thesis. 1978. Ph.D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Meteorology. / Microfiche copy available in Archives and Science. / Bibliography: p. 239-241. / Ph.D.

Seesholtz, John R

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Meteorology, 1968. / Bibliography: leaves 136-138. / [by] John R. Seesholtz. / Ph.D.

Gerbi, Gregory Peter

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Joint Program in Oceanography/Applied Ocean Science and Engineering (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences; and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 110-119). / This study presents observations of turbulence dynamics made during the low winds portion of the Coupled Boundary Layers and Air-Sea Transfer experiment (CBLAST-Low). Observations were made of turbulent fluxes, turb...

Danesh, Sheida Anya

Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 2013. / Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 79-80). / Accurate Simulations are important in all fields of science and engineering where experiments and real data are time consuming to obtain and are not easily accessible and/or free of cost. Particularly when operating in environments such as the deep ocean where it could take 2-3 hours for an autonomous underwater v...

Edmonds, Henrietta N. (Henrietta Nash)

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, 1997. / Includes bibliographical references. / by Henrietta N. Edmonds. / Ph.D.

Cornejo Garrido, Angel Gustavo

Thesis. 1976. M.S.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Meteorology. / Microfiche copy available in Archives and Science. / Bibliography: leaves 119-122. / by Angel G. Cornejo Garrido. / M.S.

Moon, Warren (Warren Darold)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Geology and Geophysics. Thesis. 1966. M.S. / Bibliography: leaves 45-46. / M.S.